#276: One Wedding and a Funeral, Pt. 2 — Shiva Baby

The Next Picture Show

Telegraph Road Productions

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

The second half of our pairing looking at young women publicly testing the goodwill of their loved ones drops in on another awkward community function in the form of SHIVA BABY’s titular gathering. We’re joined again by film writer Jordan Hoffman to talk about Emma Seligman’s extraordinary debut feature and how it connects to Jonathan Demme’s RACHEL GETTING MARRIED in its view of familial and social expectations, filmmaking that reflects its protagonist’s anxious state, and character details that hint at even deeper dysfunction. Plus Your Next Picture Show, where we share recent filmgoing experiences in hopes of putting something new on your radar. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about RACHEL GETTING MARRIED, SHIVA BABY, or anything else in the world of film, by sending an email to [email protected], or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Show Notes Work Cited: “Celebrate Passover With the Very Jewish Angst of Shiva Baby,” by Jordan Hoffman (vanityfair.com) Your Next Picture Show: Keith: Monte Hellman’s THE SHOOTING and Richard Rush’s THE STUNT MAN Jordan: The Coens’ A SERIOUS MAN, Paul Mazursky’s ENEMIES, A LOVE STORY, and Barry Levinson’s AVALON Scott: Joan Micklin Silver’s CROSSING DELANCEY Genevieve: Christopher Landon’s FREAKY Outro music: Neil Diamond, “If You Know What I Mean” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
0:05.1	Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:11.9	We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:19.3	Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film on the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.
0:25.7	I'm Scott Tobias here again with Keith Phipps and Genevieve Kosky.
0:29.8	No Tasha Robinson on this pairing, but we're happy to have freelance critic Jordan Hoffman back.
0:35.2	Jordan, how was your week?
0:36.3	Oh, man.
0:37.2	I had a great week.
0:38.1	I mean, I was a glow because we had that great conversation about Rachel getting married.
0:43.0	I just carried you right through. Really love that movie. I was so happy to revisit it.
0:47.2	What else happened this week? I had rained one day. My wife made a whole meal out of asparagus,
0:52.8	and then I forgot. And then the next day, morning,
0:56.2	I went to relieve myself. And I'm like, oh, my God, somebody lit a tire on fire. What the hell's
1:00.4	going on? But it was just, uh, just me. Does that happen anybody else?
1:05.9	In Chicago, it's only after we drink Malort that we have that experience. I don't even know what malort is. I've
1:12.1	been to Chicago, but I don't know what malort is. Next time you're here, we'll find some for you.
1:15.4	It is a really foul tasting thing that some people develop a taste for. Not me. John Hodgman is a big
1:21.7	fan or at least an ironic appreciator of a malort or who even knows i mean i think he's had enough at this point to where you
1:28.2	have to call him a fan you know but i do you know listen chicago's all right i'll tell you you got your
1:33.2	your hot dogs with the with the celery salt and the pickle in there we do you got the italian beef sandwich
1:39.3	especially when it's dunked in the grease and it's slopping all over the place.
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